Saturday, September 15, 2012

The Walking Dead

One of my favorite television shows is The Walking Dead, a post-apocalyptic zombie show on AMC. This show is based off of the popular comic book and has millions of viewers every week. With a compelling story and tons of different conflicts all going on at once, it's hard not to get into such a dramatic show. It's one of those shows where you are never comfortable with what's going on, as the setting is constantly changing, characters are always dying, and literally anything can happen at any moment. The survivors, led by a man named Rick Grimes, not only have to worry about daily survival and zombies, but also other humans who want what they have or are just out to watch the world burn.

The beginning of the series starts with Rick looking for his wife because he wakes up in the hospital from a gunshot wound when the infection began to spread. Even after a few episodes into the first season when he finally finds his wife there are still a lot of conflicts to be resolved. For example, you find out that she thought Rick was dead so she was with another man the whole time. And just when you get used to the setting and get comfortable with it, they get invaded by zombies forcing them to leave that setting and constantly move.



During the second season they do the same thing to the viewers. Most of it is set around a farm with a huge barn and home. The trouble with the farm however is the people who live on it refuse to kill zombies because they are religious. And the survivors don't know that inside of the barn is a lot of the dead family members of the farm. So they force everyone to capture the zombies and place them inside of the barn, where they have several zombies that they keep. The survivors are at a constant struggle with the owners of the farm because of the zombies in the barn, how they can't kill zombies, and that the owners of the farm want them to leave. At the end of the season one survivor breaks the barn open, causing all of the zombies to come out. The survivors are forced to kill them all, and because of the gunshots and loud noise, hundreds of other zombies start to approach the farm. A lot of the owners of the farm died during this because they refused to leave their home, and a couple survivors died during the fight. 

This is a very unique show that is constantly changing and keeping the viewers on their toes. You can never be comfortable with who will still be alive in the next episode, where they will be, and what might happen next. 

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